Suicide as Moral Indictment of Religious Groups

Whenever a human death by suicide occurs, that death comprises a very obvious moral indictment of the religious congregation or religious denomination in which the human being who committed suicide was a self-identified member.

I am very hopeful that some philanthropic non-profit foundation will help to fund a new study that attempts to determine the estimated per-capita incidence of suicide by religious congregation and religious denomination, respectively, in Texas and throughout the United States.

It seems to me very likely that the religious congregations and religious denominations that are the most permissive toward consumption of alcohol, illicit drugs, or tobacco products, or toward criminal and lawless conduct (verbal harassment of others involving profane speech, illegal electronic surveillance of others, and stalking of others, for instance) by their members, will also be the religious groups with the highest per-capita incidence of reported suicide that was committed by individual members of those religious groups.

In my own fully independent religion, a non-proselytizing alcohol-free religion with very strict eligibility requirements in which I myself am the only current member, I am proud to say that the suicide rate will always be zero. That is one statistical fact about my own fully independent and non-Christian religion that gives it a distinct moral advantage over any of the religious groups of which I am aware that have more than one member.